<p>what is the break down [how many pts per essay] how much essays are worth...and all the multiple choice stuff..so i can hypothetically calculate my score ?!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure each essay is worth a maximum of 15 points, and there are four essays for a grand Free Response total of 60 points. The Multiple Choice is equally weighted, so the 45 questions also constitute 60 points. For a 5 on the exam, you need at least (roughly) 90 out of a possible 120 points.</p>
<p>are u sure its out of 15 . i dont think it is</p>
<p>Hm... yeah, you're right, it's not out of 15 for each FRQ, and each FRQ has a different number of possible points.</p>
<p>Well, all I know is that once the scores are scaled, you need around a 75% for a 5, so you can get a feel from that. Haha, sorry I'm not of much help. Good luck, though!</p>
<p>The FRQ's are usually graded out of 5-8 points and then multiplied by a factor to get it to 15 points each.</p>
<p>I finally found the scoring for Gov in general...it'll be around:</p>
<p>Composite Score / AP Grade</p>
<p>88 - 120 / 5</p>
<p>74 - 87 / 4</p>
<p>54 - 73 / 3</p>
<p>35 - 53 / 2</p>
<p>0 - 34 / 1</p>
<p>60 MC, 60 FR.</p>
<p>Are the essays graded like bio essays? (list if things to be scored and things can't take grade away)</p>
<p>My teacher said that as long as you put enough to cover what they ask for, they aren't going to take stuff away if it's wrong. </p>
<p>However, when I was looking over the scoring guidelines from last year, the graders were instructed to not give credit to a student who said that the House approved appointees... so I suppose that there are some things that they will penalize you for. It just depends.</p>
<p>From what I've seen of scoring guidelines, though, those types of things are few and far between, so don't worry!</p>
<p>well yeah, they won't give credit for saying that the House confirms appointees because that's not true, but they won't penalize you (they won't subtract points) for saying it. I think for the exam today each free response question was worth 6 points, and that will be scaled up to 15 with a multiplier.</p>
<p>essays are on a scale of 1 to 9 i think. then they multiple your score by some number and rescale it to 15</p>